Yup, it happened again. A little over a week ago, Amazon’s EC2 East coast data center suffered another outage affecting well-known sites such as Heroku, Pinterest, Quora, and HipChat. Once again, we’re confronted by the fact that the notion of the cloud as being always available and never going down is just plain wrong (as we’ve seen several times before). Continue reading
Category Archives: Cloud Challenges for Databases Series
In-Network Cloud Database: Architecture, Benefits, Performance & Other Considerations
In general, today’s databases are divided into two categories, depending on where the data is stored: disk-based databases and main memory databases. Disk-based databases are more common, whereas in-memory databases are usually used for high performance solutions. Continue reading
What Are Cloud Databases All About?
What Are Cloud Database All About? Check out Razi Sharir’s, Xeround’s CEO, recent video interview for CloudCoverTV. Continue reading
What Do You Expect From a Cloud DB – Round #2
At the recent MySQL C&E we got a chance to catch up with MySQL users and to hear what they had to say about the challenges they face with their MySQL database in the cloud, and their expectations from an elastic database system. This is the 2nd installment of short video interviews recorded at the #mysqlconf. Continue reading
Cloud Database Panel @ GigaOm Structure Conference: Watch the Video Recording
Razi Sharir – Xeround’s CEO – participated in a panel yesterday, discussing the challenges and the opportunities for cloud databases. Joined by Jim Starkey from NimbusDB, Mike Miller of Cloudant and Barry Zane of ParAccel – the four discussed each of their unique approaches to solving the way RDBMSs scale in the cloud environment; What are the common use cases and applications to benefit from each solution; How they address availability issues and hardware issues in the cloud, support multi-tenancy, and more. Continue reading
What Do You Expect from a Cloud MySQL Database? See What the MySQL Community Has to Say!
At the recent O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo held in April, we wanted to hear from the MySQL community about their challenges with MySQL in the cloud and their expectations from a cloud database service. Check out the first round of short video interviews recorded at the event to find out what MySQL users themselves view as the most important features for their database in the cloud. Continue reading
Xeround and the Amazon EC2 Outage: On Resiliency, High Availability and Other Beasts
First things first: During the Amazon outage, Xeround costumers did not suffer any disruption to their live DB instances! The recent outage was due to an Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service malfunction. Since Xeround’s database is in-memory and we only use EBS for checkpoints and redo logs, the recent outage did not interrupt running instances despite the fact that we were on the same availability zone. Continue reading
